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Nov 21, 2010 | 10:06 am

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Originally Posted by eyecue

I can say though that since TSA has started this process that we have scored 100 percent on detection of test items.

Given what Rep. Mica said a few weeks ago, I don't find that claim plausible. Can you point to an official source?

"We test the system. So I know how the system works and it doesn't work," said Congressman Mica.

As for the details on the results of that security testing: "That's classified information," said Mica. "But I can tell you publicly that the results that I've gotten, even of late, with this huge bureaucracy, this huge number of employees, even with this advanced technology, the (security test) results are not good."

I-Team investigator Stephen Stock asked "I've been told that it ranges anywhere from 75 to 90 percent failure rate?"

"Again, I can't quote on that," said Congressman Mica. "But the failure rates are way off the charts.

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